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Re: Mindstorms/Robolab in education
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:59:06 GMT
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Benjamin Erwin <BERWIN@EMERALD.nospamTUFTS.EDU>
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> Mr Irwin I am looking at buying Robolab software for my 16 year old son to use
> in Homeschooling.
> My question is this what kind of sensors can robolab use? Touch, Temp,Light,
> angle, rotation.
ROBOLAB can use all 4 of the LEGO sensors you mentioned, as can every
software package out there for the RCX, as far as I know. (angle and
rotations are two facets of the same sensor)
> Just trying to compare capabilities to other software packages written for
> mindstorms such as Botcode, Brick Command, RCX Control, RCX Command Center,
> and Gordons Brick Programmer. My son has ADD and is a VERY visual, hands on
> learner so I am leaning twords the more graphical interface approach rather
> the typing of code which most of the programs mentioned are. Any other
> comments you might have would be appreciated.
ROBOLAB can be more frustrating and require more attention than the
Mindstorms software. There are some minor nuances that make the graphical
programming a little more tedious with ROBOLAB. With mindstorms, for
example, the graphical commands automatically "lock" together, whereas
with robolab they don't. but robolab allows you to do more sophisticated
things, so there is a trade-off. robolab is only $25 now in the new
pitsco catalog, so its probably worth checking them both out.
-Ben
> Thank You
> Jim Clark
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> Ben Erwin wrote:
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> > I wrote a paper about using ROBOLAB called "Middle School Engineering with
> > LEGO and LabVIEW" (ROBOLAB was written with LabVIEW) and I would be very
> > eager and willing to collaborate with you on a project.
> >
> > This paper, and another one I wrote called "Systems Engineering and K-12
> > Education: A New Perspective" (about some pre-ROBOLAB lego work) can both
> > be found at http://ldaps.ivv.nasa.gov/ under "publications"
> >
> > -Ben
> >
> > "Kin W. Lau" wrote:
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> > > I wonder could anyone point me to some informations/white papers on
> > > using Mindstorms/Robolab in
> > > high school education. I would be interested to collaborate with anyone
> > > interested to write a paper about using Mindstorms/Robolab in high
> > > school education.
> > >
> > > Please contact me.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Kin W. Lau
> > > Digital Communications And Signal Processing Group,
> > > Electrical Engineering Department,
> > > Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
> > > London, United Kingdom.
> > >
> > > Email: kin.lau@ic.ac.uk
> > > kxl@bts.co.uk
> > > --
> > > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
>
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